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When the goal is to create a service with 100% uptake, one can't optimize for the minority position, especially if the majority finds it objectionable. So what
by shadowgovt 4y ago
When the goal is to create a service with 100% uptake, one can't optimize for the minority position, especially if the majority finds it objectionable.
So what you're looking for if you want something like that is a developer that is not optimizing to get 100% uptake. That's tricky to find, because the people with money always want 100% uptake.
- qubex 4y agoIt can’t have a target of “100% uptake” if it’s deliberately excluding some tiny but nonzero proportion of those who might otherwise subscribe. That’s the bombastic reply anyway. The more subtle and nuanced response is this is not a comparable situation because it’s not that developers are ignoring a small demographic, it’s that they’re deliberately working to make the environment actively hostile for that mini-demographic.
- shadowgovt 4y ago> It can’t have a target of “100% uptake” if it’s deliberately excluding some tiny but nonzero proportion of those who might otherwise subscribe. Targets are always aspirational. "100% uptake" just means "As many users as possible." > they’re deliberately working to make the environment actively hostile for that mini-demographic. Yes. This is because the larger demographic has made clear that they don't want to share the room with the other demographic and they will leave if forced to.
- yosito 4y agoAt one point, a promise of the internet was to optimize for the long tail of niche interests and viewpoints.
- shadowgovt 4y agoI think the internet, as a whole, still does. Individual pages and sites (even the mega-sized ones, like Facebook and Twitter) don't.